You cannot murder the eternal plan of salvation.

It is impossible that when he said it is finished and he committed his spirit to the Father

and he breathed his last breath, he could not have stayed dead no matter what.

When it came time for him to get up out of that tomb, let me tell you something, that stone had the weight of a fleck of dust, because nothing was going to hold him in.

Absolutely nothing.

Thank you. hold him in, absolutely nothing. I'm going to be reading Acts 1 through 14 in a moment and then on through parts of Acts chapter 2.

But I want to just go to the very first verse to begin with, and then I want to compare it back to Luke.

So Acts chapter 1, verse 1 says, this is Luke writing, I wrote the first narrative, Theophilus,

about all that Jesus began to do and teach until the day

he was taken up after he had given instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had

chosen. After he suffered, he also presented himself alive to them, but many convincing proves

appearing to them over a period of 40 days and speaking about the kingdom of God. So already in the opening verse

of the book of Acts, he refers to a prior book that he has written, a prior narrative that he

has written, and he is talking about what we know of as the gospel of Luke. So holding something

right here, go with me to Luke chapter one and let's hear the very beginning of it.

Many have undertaken to compile a narrative about the events that have been fulfilled among us

just as the original eyewitnesses and servants of the word handed them down to us.

I love that phraseology, servants of the word. Those who were serving

to fulfill what God had already promised. Servants of the word. Verse three. It also seemed good to me,

since I've carefully investigated everything from the very first, to write to you in an orderly

sequence, most honorable Theophilolis, so that you may know

the certainty of the things about which you have been instructed. I want to remind you of something

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